on this election day edition of "morning joe." we've turned 30 rock into your election headquarters as voters across the country flock to the polls to choose the next president of the united states. we kicked things off at 5:30 a.m. or willie did, and we're not stopping until noon. this morning president obama's at a campaign office in chicago making phone calls to voters in wisconsin. >> last hour mitt romney and his wife anne voted in belmont, massachusetts. the republican presidential candidate has a busy day ahead. he's got stops in cleveland this hour and the last-minute stop in pittsburgh later today. rm me will have spent two of the last three days in pennsylvania, but prior to that he hadn't been to the state since september. >> earlier today, romney's running mate congressman paul ryan voted in janesville, wisconsin, where republicans have not won since 1984. ryan promised to turn the state red this year and in greenville, delaware, vice president joe

biden and his wife jill cast their ballots. yes, they did. >> two small towns in new hampshire got the jump on election day like they always do, opening the boys after midnight. it was a split decision, five votes for each candidate. there were 23 votes for the president and nine for mitt romney. >> looking ahead to tonight, polls began closing at 6:00 eastern time in kentucky and indiana and we'll begin to see important results roll in after 7:00 when polls close in another half-dozen states and we'll have a sense of what's going on, possibly. >> possibly. >> possibly. >> perhaps. >> nbc chief white house correspondent chuck toad, co-anchor of cnbc's "squawk box"a andrew ross sorkin and former new york city mayor rudy giuliani and "the huffington post" sam stein, all morning joe and me. >> the person who followed you, andrew ross sorkin is the guy

that we accused of skipping prep school. >> did your parents vote today? >> my parents voted today, and i made it to school on time and i made it out early to be here. >> there's something about the magic of election day every four years especially, mr. mayor. willy was just telling me that lawrence who works with us in new york has been in line for how long? >> upper east side. two and a half hours now. proud to be there. >> two and a half hours? >> why is that happening? >> that could be her excuse. she could be at a spa. >> she could be getting a facial. >> there does seem to be a lot of excitement in this campaign, and -- >> this is about as close as it gets. you can look at the polls and you can look at the enthusiasm, and you can look at the democratic numbers in the polls and you can come into any interpretation you want as a result of this election. anybody that thinks they know the result right now i think is fooling themselves based on partisan interpretation,

feeling, i believe romney's going to win. i've been out there in five states campaigning for him. my voice is gone. i think i've given 30 speeches in the last four days. i spent yesterday in pennsylvania unexpectedly sent to pennsylvania with your old colleague bob urlich and norm coleman. enthusiasm in pennsylvania seems over the top. these republican, you know, they've been told that at the last minute you're relevant. wow! the last week someone told him you can actually make a difference and they're really pumped up. >> mark halpern, your partner in crime called the pennsylvania rally -- i'm sorry. he's not here -- >> it's been a long day. >> sometimes -- >> i was thinking about how long -- >> and chuck todd, you know, mark halpern's partner in crime.

>> there were up to 30,000 people there in pennsylvania and said it was unbelievable. sometimes that doesn't translate to votes. >> john kerry got 75,000. >> in madison and he did win wisconsin, but he lost the presidential race. i've heard people tell me about the great stories mcgovern got over the weekend, but, look, there is -- you know there's more energy on the republican side and we measured it in our poll, but is there just more democratic vote? this is what this game is, it's demographics versus enthusiasm. i happen to believe that both sides are right about their own side, and then that's what could lead us to a lot of uncalled races tonight. >> good analysis. well done. >> and if i'm wrong, if i'm right, either way. >> that's a way of saying we know nothing. >> you said it. >> i put a decibel point on it. >> you and i were talking about

the stakes in the wake of this and what it means on the fiscal cliff of this. >> what does the result of today's election mean? >> when chuck says we don't know or we may not know tonight, in an odd way, if you care about the markets and you care about the markets you actually want a blowout. no matter which side you actually want because if it's that tight it will be so hard to get through the fiscal cliff without some sort of a mandate and if you think romney gets the popular vote and obama gets the electoral vote, that doesn't help the cause at all. that makes things worse. citigroup put out a note this morning saying that the ing single worst outcome would be that. >> and it could happen, mr. mayor. >> the reality is and "the new york times" said the first editorial i agree with in just the other day in which they said this may turn out either way, popular vote one way, that's our country and that's our government and that's what we agreed on a long time ago. >> do you think we should change

it? >> first of all, you don't think we should be that much politicized? >> i don't think we can change it. how will you get that through the senate? how will you get the small states to give up an advantage that they have? sure, we probably should have a popular election of the president and whoever gets the popular vote is the president of the united states and that's what probably 90% of americans think anyway with the electoral college and we've been doing it this way a long time and we've built it into the dna and i don't think we can live with it. i'm not sure it will be a close lech. i think somebody's right and somebody's wrong. i think either the d-plus, five, sir, seven electorate is correct in which case obama wins. if that electorate is wrong, if this is a d-1 or 2, then i think you'll see romney win by two or three points. i don't think it's going to be -- i think somebody's right or wrong about the projection of this electorate. >> on that, sam stein, what's made it more confusing and con

ro lut vo luted and the closeness in the polls and then hurricane sandy which many analysts say that's been a joebamma because it took romney out of the spotlight temporarily at the very least. mitt romney stalled in the momentum that he got from the first debate and obama had persisted to meet these battleground states. i do agree with the idea that hurricane sandy allowed obama to show himself in the presidential role and it sort of removed romney from the conversation. he had to seek ways to get back into the conversation. he held food drives and tried his best to get in the conversation, but i don't think he -- sandy was this great turning point that it was blapld up to be. i have this theory that a lot of the election significance changed when todd akin stuck his foot in his mouth because up to that point there was a

probability that republicans were taking control of the senate and they could do certain things if they were in the majority. if democrats were to hold the majority of the senate, it would prohibit him and limit him in significant ways including in the fiscal cliff. i think we tend to focus our attention on the presidential race, but there are consequential races out there. >> as well as richard murdoch in that race that is just an embarrassment to the party for sure, but would you agree with the assessment about sandy, mr. mayor? >> think it helped president obama a little bit and any little help in this election will mean a lot if these polls are correct. they're like this. i think it helped him. i think it's beginning to hurt him because people see on television that the effort is not what it was cracked up to be. it was the first two days. since then it's been a disaster. fema hasn't prepositioned the water correctly. no water for people in new york. no generators for people in new york. i know about emergency response. this stuff should be out there

by now. >> fema is asleep at the switch, and i don't -- >> beyond the hospitals, i want to know about this, how could it be that i guess we get the generator to the hospital -- >> two of the major hospitals in new york. >> are we supposed to be the center of the world. the generators blow and --? because generators are susceptible to water the same way your regular system is. in other words, if you're going have a flood. >> right. >> you have a back-up generator will get flooded. here's what you need. >> a generator on the second floor? >> you can bring one in. on the morning of september 11th, 10:00 in the morning i knew we would need generators to light up ground zero becausal of ground zero was out so i called general electric and they send me four generators and we lit up the place for four months straight. >> mayor bloomberg. >> fema should be able to get these generators for us. what do we have fema for other

than being able to call upon resources all throughout the country to bring them to a certain place when that place is in trouble? this has been -- and i know -- let me just finish my thought. this is as bad a backup effort as you had for katrina. it's a disaster. >> mr. mayor, if you want to walk it back -- >> i do not want to walk it back. >> no water for new york for five days and you can't get an airplane from california to new york with water on it unless the fema director has his head up his you know what. >> i think there were problems with people that are absolutely hurting. >> a couple million. >> for example, you saw on the front page of the new york post as opposed to generators for the marathon as opposed to generators for staten island, but the parallel it to katrina, you know, that's where it's hard for people to believe what you say when you say things like that. >> much smart response. much easier to handle correctly. katrina was a much, much bigger,

broader problem, three, four states. >> i'm curious -- if fema wants to make this an a-plus effort we're in deep trouble. this should be an f-minus effort and they should learn from it -- >> are you putting mayor bloomberg in there? >> being the mayor during 9/11 and watching this, this storm seemed to cripple new york city in a way that 9/11 didn't cripple it. >> a storm is different than 9/11? >> it's sort of scary, what should be the longer term lesson of preparing the northeast for a weather pattern? >> first of all, what you do about the flooding, there are four or five answers that can't be answered quickly. the mayor and the governor have to decide on that. as to how you deal with an emergency, there should have been a lot more pre-planning. there should have been millions of bottles of water. >> the mayor can't -- if i'm the mayor and there's no water in new york, i can't magically produce the water. so when i was the mayor i had

joe albert next to me, and if i needed five more generators i turned to joe, and got them to new york the next day. if i needed -- the next day we needed a new search and rescue team in new york. joe albert got on the phone next to governor pataki and me. within 12 hours a new search and rescue team from kentucky was here in new york. fema's got to bring in the resources that you don't have in a particular city and honestly, it's not going to affect the selection. they dropped the ball here. they should look at this as a learning experience and they shouldn't do it again. >> so with all due respect, isn't your criticism equal for mayor bloomberg because you speak from experience as mayor of the city during 9/11 and how you got generators where they needed to be, well, then wouldn't that apply to mayor bloomberg as well? why are you going after fema only? >> fema has to get the generators. >> you're the one that facilitated generators. >> i had joe albert sitting next

to me. i wanted generators, i got generators. i needed rescue peoples, i got rescue teams. i didn't get it, fema went and got it. that's what fema is for. fema allows the city to refrp out beyond its limited resources to the rest of the country. if you think this is a good response i i invite you to go to staten island and breezy point and go to long island and northern new jersey. ten people died. ten people died in midland beach and people are still out of their homes and this is unacceptable. >> i agree with you on that. >> staten island always has felt like it's been the forgotten borough, that manhattan sort of, you know, thumbs its nose at it and snubs it. doesn't this just really seem to underline that fact that there were some terrible oversights in the first few days regarding the residents of staten island. >> the fact is staten island is always so far away. >> i went out of my way to make

staten island feel loved because i wouldn't be mayor of new york city without stat een island, a they voted me 58-15 and i was in love with staten island. i was there all of the time. i tried to make -- in fact, the day i got elected staten island voted to secede from new york city. people don't remember that, but they voted for secession, and i talked them out of it. there's something inherent, and their problems are more complicated. it's harder to reach. they've got all of the problems that you have being a seaside community. they're urban. they're rural. it's a very, very complicated place to deal with. i mean, it's not as accessible so there were a lot of issues as to why sometimes -- sometimes they're left out. >> i'm curious, would you buy levees? >> would you build levees? >> i've read the "times" article and evaluating all that.

i don't know. i see the governor has sort of one position. the mayor has another. i would have to study that. it's inherent --? it's part of the job description in the oath of office. >> it's inherent -- >> and it's inherent to the job. >> mayor rudy giuliani, it is always interesting to have you on the set with us. thank you so much. >> thank you very much for coming in. >> thank you. >> sam stein, thank you, as well. stay with us, if you can. >> more coverage, please stick around. >> wake up. nbc's kelly o'donnell is coming up from the battleground state of ohio and also former dnc chair and governor of vermont, howard dean and joining us here on set pulitzer prize-winning journalist carl bernstein. he knows the walk. he's got the walk down. he doesn't even -- you're watching a special, extend edition of "morning joe" live

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live pictures from cleveland, ohio, mitt romney's plane has just landed. he is going to be going to a campaign event there, of course, we'll be watching those pictures and also polling locations across the country. joining us on set on this special extended edition of "morning joe." pulitzer prize-winning investigative journalist carl bernstein and former chairman of the democratic national committee howard dean. chuck todd, just for the record, chuck todd to your left. >> and right here. elija's in the middle and the presence of mark. >>. >> since chicago, we'll get to him in a second. so chuck todd, we got a good

over-under here. i saw the end of your show, you had some really stupid bets. this one was good. >> someone asked me tonight, i just got an e-mail from my cousin who lives in mexico city who said will there be a concession speech tonight, and my immediate reaction was oh, no chance. even if it's sort of called, no way. >> wednesday at noon. >> wednesday at noon, i would take noon is the line. that would be my guess. >> wow! >> carl, what are you looking for tonight? >> i'm looking for one of the candidates who wins to say we must end this cultural warfare and come together as a country and put out some plans to do it. i think this election -- >> so you have no idea what's going on? >> i don't. i hope the pollsters are wrong and somebody is out of the thrall. i think they're self-fulfilling and disfiguring and we have to restore democracy to the election process and this

election has been dismaying and in every regard and it ought to give us some real pause, but rudy giuliani was saying it's in our dna to have no one person one vote, i think it's kind of changed the dna. we need a popular vote in this country. watch someone in ohio's vote 12 times more than yours and mine. >> okay. let's find someone who knows what's going on. let's go to ohio. >> i don't know -- i don't know what's going on, and that's good. and i think it's terrific that i don't know. >> i think it's terrific that i don't know what's going on. >> okay. >> i think you're exactly right, and i think we need to talk about that a little bit more about what happens over the next four years. >> the process is not working. you look at the super pacs. you look at the fact that like you said, this campaign has been run in ohio. it hasn't been run across america, and you look at the fact that nobody's talking about

seaying medica saving medicare and no one's talking about a decade-long occupation in american and the majority of americans we talk to don't even want. this has been as mika said a campaign about nothing and i'm sorry, andrew ross cirque sorki you're talking about the markets, and what will happen after this election, no side has shown the courage to tell american people what they need to do to save this country. >> unfortunately, all of the issues that you just talked about which matter a lot. i don't want to say they don't, the economy still -- of all of the issues we haven't talked about jobs and that's the issue. >> maybe we need to look at the economy in terms of the national interest and not the specifics of job cuts, job numbers. maybe we need to find a formula that says what serves the national interest? what gets pragmatism in the cena the and the house, enough of this crap, already.

that's what this election is about. >> you know how we'll get there? it's going hurt. it's going to hurt really badly more than we've seen in a life time in this country. that's why people -- and especially politicians. >> the great challenge of every politician over the next decade is taking away stuff. >> how about the challenge to us as the media. i looked at real clear politics today and i saw all of us making picks and going to what we want to happen and almost no analysis of what's really going on in the country. and you know, the great problem is what andrew said which is since world war ii, our federal government has been about giving things away, about, you know, expanding entitlements while cutting taxes, fighting wars. it's been an unsustainable course and as we move forward over the next 30, 40 years, we'll talk about what we have to take away and that will be i difficult transition and let's go to columbus, ohio.

a lot of these decisions that will be made over the next four years rest on what happens over the next 24 hours in the buckeye state. set it up for us. >> reporter: well, to give you an idea of where we are, we're in franklin county here. this is a polling place. we've been here since well before the sun came up. four precincts of the 9200 or so in ohio are voting here. the parking lot has been full all day and i'm just hearing from senior romney officials in ohio that they are getting word that the turnout in areas they were counting on is looking high. so they're characterizing that as favorable for governor romney. senator rob portman of ohio. i've spent time with him over the last couple of days and he has been at a polling place and believes that the crowds in suburban areas around columbus and so forth that governor romney would need to be having a good turnout. also in this same location we saw the reverend jesse jackson trying to talk to voters before

they headed in and we saw one of the obama busses here and this is a contested area and franklin county is one of those big, big counties in ohio that will make a difference. when i talked to the obama people in this state, they know that in cleveland which happens to be my hometown where both the president's doing interviews with local affiliates and governor romney and paul ryan are making a stop that that county is so critical because the president needs a big margin there to help offset, but the obama team is trying to pick off votes in other county, not just relying on a big urban center like cuyahoga county and some of the student-populated areas where we have campuses around the state. so ohio is critical and when it comes to whoever the president will be working with, be that a second term for president obama and perhaps a mitt romney administration, what happens in the senate will be critical and i've been watching one of the races here does didn't get as much national attention and sherry brown up against josh

mandl who is state fresher and mika, chuck and joe and everybody, what is crucial, republicans hoped to take that back and it looks like democrats may be able to hold on there. >> kelly, it's willie. i'm curious, we spent spend a lot of time talking in the press about what we think voters want or what they're interested in. have you had opportunity to speak to any voters about what made the difference for them if they were sitting on the fence? why they went one way or the other? what's the feeling there? >> reporter: well one thing you get is a big exhale. people are ready for it to be over, ready for the ads to be over and the phone calls to be over and also you get a sense that people sort of revert to that gut moment. do they have a general feeling about the president that they want to see him continue or do they feel like it's one of those years when change for them makes a difference? you come back to those very fundamental things where people have a sense of do they like the person at the top of the ticket? have they had a chance especially in a place like ohio where they've seen them in person or been exposed to their

ads nonstop and phone calls to the home and those kind of things. voter contact make a big difference and they're trying to get them to go to the polls and people want to participate and today they get to do that. >> all right. >> nbc's kelly o'donnell live in columbus, ohio, thank you very much. >> all right. >> carl. >> thank you, carl. >> in back after the election and talk about solutions. >> that's what we have to do. >> it is time to talk solutions just like you said. we have to break the fever of gridlock in washington. >> otherwise, we're in terrible trouble. one way or the other. >> by the way, can i just say you look very, very fashionable walking in. i'm a kaleidoscope. >> reservoir dogs, man. >> i'm a kaleidoscope. >> wow! >> okay. everyone's a little punchy. coming up, no matter which

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>> sometimes when you leave from dulles, you can only go through cleveland. >> in delaware, that is what you do. they'll sneak into a stop. >> joining us on set, ceo of the comeback america initiative and former comptroller of the u.s., nick walker. >> that's just not true. >> in washington, former governor of vermont and former chairman of the dnc, howard dean. what do you need to do if you're barack obama's team to put this away? >> there's some reports in ohio, i was hoping to ask kelly about this, about voting machines that aren't working in toledo, dayton and cleveland and some reports of voter harassment in the philadelphia area. so i think the president's going to win this if we have a fair election. now that we have work to do. >> oh, no.

>> yea. >> it's a problem. >> 11:38 it's this. >> really? what's voter intimidation in pennsylvania. >> people are standing outside the polls and asking for their i.d.s and federal judges are enjoying them, and that's what's happening. i have a voter in my family that was required to cast a provisional ballot and even though they were registered to vote so this stuff is going on. we've seen this before. we've seen this movie before and there's a group of people in this country who think that their winning is more important than everybody voting, and i think that's wrong. >> chuck todd, do you have a question for the governor? >> governor, that's a big charge. >> yea. >> do you think the president could -- do you believe if he loses ohio it will be because of voting irregularities? >> i do. i do. >> that's the only way he loses ohio? >> that's correct. given the vote and the leading in the polls in ohio, the only way you can lose is if people are prevented from casting their

ballots and other forms of harassment. >> okay. will ie geist, do you have a question for the governor? if you look at voter irregularities and where do you see this race playing out? we talked a lot about virginia early on and in particular, loudoun county and some people looking at that as the bellwether and it looks like the dominos fall and where do you look at it as the guy in the middle of the races as well. >> one of the interesting states is colorado and wisconsin. if the president wins both wisconsin and colorado you can probably win without ohio. you certainly can't win without ohio and pennsylvania, and i still think virginia will narrowly go for the president and there are huge turnouts across northern virginia which is good for the democrats, but we know that will be a very close state. >> all right. governor howard dean, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we have dave walker here. >> yea. and we're going to prep him.

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. welcome back to an extended edition of "morning joe," joining us from bakersfield, california, kevin mccarthy. good to have you on our broadcast today. >> thanks for having me.

>> what's the key issue of the race for you today, kevin? what do you think americans as they go to the voting booth will be focusing on the most? >> economy. do you want the same as the last four years or you want some form of change? all across the country, people are looking at can america grow and create new jobs and that will be the inference on what people vote on. >> what change does mitt romney's candidacy promise? >> i think it changes the direction in such a government-creating jobs to a private sector creation of jobs to people working together to try to find solutions, for one. i think his success and the combination of paul ryan and the idea of understanding the budget so the future of what america will look like with job creation? do we get out of this mess by raising taxes or do we get out of the mess by changing. >> and you know speaking of the debt and the budget, andrew ross sorkin. >> mr. walker here. >> i have one question.

you're mr. fix the debt. you wake up tomorrow morning and you find out president obama wins or you find out mitt romney wins. who -- who comes up with a solution? what actually happens? is there something where you actually find a solution at the end of the tunnel here? >> we have to. we'll find a solution in the face for crisis and we'll prevent a crisis. here's my view, i think the american people have to rally around the result. i think the president has to show extraordinary leadership because that's what's been lacking for ten years. it's been lacking. look, only the president has the pulpit and the president needs to call for congress to not take a break until they've dealt with the fiscal cliff. >> whoever gets elected. whoever gets elected they need a former unity candidate and president obama will have to re-shuffle his candidate. >> did you watch mcconnell and reid on 60 minutes together? >> i did. >> and? what gives you hope that the u.s. senate, no matter what, will get anything done?

>> the reason being is that the president of the united states is the leader of this country. the president of the united states has the ability to go -- >> has the ability to go directly to the american people and rally the american people and this president so far and the last president didn't do it. >> kevin mccarthy. if the president gets reelected and the house stays in the republican hands can they bargain? >> well, look, you have to do something and the best way to do it is growing the economy. now, i'm one who firmly agrees that mitt romney will win and we'll have a fiscal cliff between now and the end of the year for the debt limit to looming tax increases and to sequestration, and all those ideas have been passed by the house to solve those, and i think people changed in the senate as well that can move america forward and who can pass someone in the senate. >> this is a big day for decisions and congressman kevin mccarthy, thank you.

>> up next, "morning joe." he fared much better than the last two guests. >> i have not been rude. >> he has something on his lapel. >> up next -- >> i voted, man. >> nothing with the tie. >> what is that? >> "morning joe's" road to the election straight ahead, but first, still more than nine hours left to vote in 14 states across the country and we'll be keeping a close eye on colorado, wisconsin and michigan. you're watching a special edition of "morning joe" live from democracy plaza. no, no, no, stop! humans -- one day, we're coming up with the theory of relativity, the next... stop, stop, stop! my car! not so much. but that's okay. you're covered with great ideas like optional better car replacement from liberty mutual insurance. total your car, and we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. learn about it at libertymutual.com. liberty mutual insurance.

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welcome back. time to talk about what we learned today. i speak for everybody when we learned nothing. we have no idea who's going to win. we don't know how voting is going to go. we know this, howard dean has told us that thugs have started beating up people in philadelphia suburbs already. what have you learned today? >> i learned from this gentleman that we will have no concession speech this evening, maybe noon. what's the bet on that? >> i like your idea. >> noon on wednesday. >> anything i said today can be blamed on mark halperin and you won't know the difference. >> exactly. that rat. what's the rabbit, jimmy stewart had the movie, the imaginary rabbit. >> oh, well. i. >> i should be asking chris mathews that question about the 1960s movie. i'm sorry. wrong place, mark halperin. >> chuck todd has his own man cave over there where he's spending a portion of the day and night i assume. >> you here. >> ice skating. >> we should point out,

especially at night, how beautiful this plaza is and you have to thank robert and mark green stein the people that put months putting this together. it's going to look great. >> what have you learned today? >> 92 y.org watch this idiots screaming at the 92nd street y trying to talk what they know nothing about until it happens. voters decide. >> speaking of bumbling idiot, what did you learn today? >> i just called massachusetts for obama. didn't want to get ahead of myself. >> very good. >> checking the numbers. >> okay. >> i work all day. >> massachusetts for obama and d.c. for obama. >> he delivered it. >> voted five times. >> all right. very good. if it's way too early, willie -- >> we're going to "now" with alex wagner. >> trying to help you all out. >> it's "morning joe." where are we going now? >> we'll see you tomorrow on "morning joe." going to back track a little bit and have a great election day. now we'll send it up to the booth to great alex wagner.

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let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. game on. it is tuesday, november 6th. and this is "now." joining me today live from democracy plaza here in new york city. rick hertzburg of the new yorker, host of msnbc's hardball, the man had himself,

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